Damn! A Book of Calumny

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English Year 1918

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Henry L. Mencken

Table of contents :

Third Printing

Contents:

Pater Patriæ
The Reward of the Artist
The Heroic Considered
The Burden of Humor
The Saving Grace
Moral Indignation
Stable-Names
The Jews
The Comstockian Premiss
The Labial Infamy
A True Ascetic
On Lying
History
The Curse of Civilization
Eugenics
The Jocose Gods
War
Moralist and Artist
Actors
The Crowd
An American Philosopher
Clubs
Fidelis ad Urnum
A Theological Mystery
The Test of Truth
Literary Indecencies
Virtuous Vandalism
A Footnote on the Duel of Sex
Alcohol
Thoughts on the Voluptuous
The Holy Estate
Dichtung und Wahrheit
Wild Shots
Beethoven
The Tone Art
Zoos
On Hearing Mozart
The Road to Doubt
A New Use for Churches
The Root of Religion
Free Will
Quid est Veritas?
The Doubter's Reward
Before the Altar
The Mask
Pia Veneziani, poi Cristiani
Off Again, On Again
Theology
Exemplia Gratia

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